The sun was shining hotly overhead, and when he got up in the morning, he felt stuffy and hot, and he looked at the leaves on the trees, and they were all hanging motionless, without a trace of wind. He looked up in the direction of the mountain again, and there was only the bright sun, and there was not a shadow of a cloud in sight.

What kind of husband looked back at the Xiao Kunu who was busy in the yard and greeted: "I went to the field, it has not rained these days, not a drop of rain, the few acres of land by the lake should be watered in a hurry, and the insects will be cured in a few days." ”

Xiao Kunu knew what kind of husband was going to watch the pump there when watering, and after thinking about it, she said, "Sister Cao is not at home, I'll make you lunch and send it." The husband nodded and said, "It's okay, the doors of the house are unlocked, you can get whatever you need, and you can watch and cook the lunch at noon." ”

While packing up the farm tools in the field, the husband told Xiao Kunu: "The school now has a cafeteria, and the two children will not come back to eat at noon, so you don't need to cook for them." There is also a school bus pick-up and drop-off in the morning, which saves a lot of things and a lot of worry. Xiao Kunu then thought that after she got up in the morning, she didn't see the shadows of the two children, and probably took the school bus to school.

The husband took a few farm tools out of the village, and the sun shone on his body and felt hot and straight into his clothes, and he was drenched in sweat before he could walk a long way. He pressed down his straw hat and turned into the fruit grove by the roadside, walking as far as he could from the shade of the trees, and then he felt cooler.

This forest of dozens of acres was originally full of miscellaneous trees that could only be used as matches, and it took a year for the husband to cut down those miscellaneous trees. In the spring of the previous year, he took out a loan to buy thousands of fruit tree saplings and planted them, and now these fruit tree saplings have grown into a verdant and dense fruit grove.

As long as it is managed well, it will bring him tens of thousands of yuan of income every year, and if the harvest is good, there is a chance to earn more than 100,000 yuan. If you cooperate with Boss Li's father and daughter of the roast pheasant shop and build another chicken farm next to the fruit grove, the income will increase by tens of thousands. According to the methods said by experts, if we engage in circular farming, we may have better income. The two children have finished primary school and will go to middle school and university, and the children's tuition depends on this fruit grove.

Passing through the fruit groves is a small crystal clear lake, where several streams that flow down from the mountains converge and never dry up all year round. There were originally only two small plots of land on the edge of the small lake, one was his own and the other was owned by Liu Munan's family. The original piece of his own house was only a little more than three acres, which could only ensure the rations of the whole family. In the past few years, he and Liu Caogu have worked hard to open up a lot of wasteland, and there are several more pieces of land that can be used to grow rice than before.

Looking at the large expanse of vigorous hybrid rice, it was like taking a reassuring pill. This large paddy field not only guarantees the food rations of the whole family, but also tens of thousands of catties of rice can be sold, at least eight or nine thousand yuan, and if the harvest is good, it is possible to sell 10,000 yuan.

Last winter, he cut down some miscellaneous trees from this wood, and built a simple pump house on the edge of the small lake, so that he could not only protect the water pump, but also put some farm tools in normal times, and have a temporary place to rest and shelter from the wind and rain.

When he came to the edge of the field, he put down his farming tools, covered his hands from the sun, squinted at the sky, and looked at the mountain a few times, but still could not feel the wind or see a cloud. "On this day, it's so ghostly, if it doesn't rain anymore, the ground will crack." He muttered in his mouth, looked at the sky again, and shook his head helplessly.

He used the farm tools placed in the pump room to clean up the surroundings first, and then carefully checked the power lines of the pump from the inside to the outside, and found no problems, so he walked into the pump room and gently closed the electric switch. The motor of the pump "hummed", and a stream of fresh water rushed out of the water pipe and flowed into several rice fields near the two houses along a small canal made of stones.

The hybrid rice in the paddy field is still growing well, and it looks like this year's harvest will not be much worse. He watched a few clear springs flowing into the rice fields, and while looking at the surrounding rice fields, he mentally calculated the possible yield. I heard that the state has raised the purchase price of grain again, and it has risen by several cents a catty. In this way, the income will not be lower than in previous years.

He picked up a shovel and walked around the perimeter of several rice fields, carefully checked whether there was any leakage on the ridge, and found that there were problems in several places where the water was leaking, so he carefully plugged the leakage with some earth and stones. After taking a closer look at it, he took the towel around his neck and wiped the sweat on his face, covered his hand and glanced at the hot sun, felt that his nose was a little itchy, touched it with his hand, yawned a few times in succession, and then returned to the pump room.

He spread the straw mat that he had brought to the side on the ground, touched it with his hand and felt that it was a little hard, so he ran to the outside of the pump room and picked up some sun-dried straw, spread it layer by layer, and then spread the straw mat on top of the straw. After doing this, he sat down on the straw mat again, feeling much more comfortable than before.

He yawned a few more times, and felt that the craving for cigarettes had come up again, so he took out a cigarette and lit it, first took a shallow puff, and let the cigarette slowly exhale through his mouth and through his nostrils, and the olfactory nerve began to get excited. Then I took a deep breath and let the smoke pass through my mouth into my lungs, and from my lungs back into my nostrils, and then exhale slowly, and then I felt a sense of satisfaction.

He exhaled a long breath, and a sleepiness hit him, and he felt his eyelids become a little heavy. After smoking a cigarette, I felt a little sleepy listening to the "hum" of the motor. What kind of husband thinks, anyway, there is nothing to do, it is better to sleep first, and then spread out his limbs and lie on his back on the straw mat.

Last night, until the rooster crowed, the husband fell asleep in a daze, and he didn't know why his mind was full of the shadow of Xiao Kunu. Whether his eyes were open or closed, Xiao Kunu's white jade-like shadow seemed to be shaking in front of his eyes all the time, making him toss and turn on the bed and couldn't sleep.

What kind of husband usually rarely urins at night, but he got up several times last night. Every time he got up to urinate at night, he had to quietly open the door and go out to have a look, and when he saw that the light in Xiao Kunu's room was always on, he stood quietly outside, lit a cigarette, and waited until he finished smoking, and then he went back to the house and closed the door and lay down on the bed.

He had never had insomnia before, but he couldn't fall asleep last night, and he got up several times. He looked at the lights in Xiao Kunu's room, and thought about getting closer to see what was going on, and he said to himself repeatedly in his heart: "Well, just go and see, a woman is always a little uneasy at home alone, I should still care about it." Jier shook his head again, feeling that this reason was a bit reluctant.

In the middle of the night, he got up again, leaned on the bed and smoked a cigarette silently, and thought again: "Well, what will the bitter girl think?" Will you blame me? Well, there's Ah Lang, who is a faithful watchdog. This dog is really a little strange, it is very good to Xiao Kunu, if something happens, the dog will definitely bark. I thought about it again and again, and finally I couldn't help but go out the door again.

Thinking of last night's events, the husband sat up from the straw mat, took out another cigarette and lit it. After smoking, he threw the cigarette butt out, and then he lay down on the straw mat again, closed his eyes, and Xiao Kunu's shadow shook in front of him again.

The night before Liu Caogu went to the hospital to replace Xiao Kunu, after the husband got off her, Liu Caogu said to him: "You have to think of a way to help Xiao Kunu." The husband was silent at first, and then asked Aunt Liu Cao with some doubts: "How can I help her?" What can I do to help her? You're not joking. ”

Liu Caogu said faintly: "If Xiao Kunu has no children, she will be very pitiful when she gets old." The husband closed his eyes and sighed, "Don't we have children, aren't we the same?" We seem to be two families, but in fact we are a family, and our two children will not leave her alone in the future. Pomegranates and stones are good for her aunt. ”

Liu Caogu said seriously: "This is different, the biological is always the biological one." Do you know what will happen to them when they get old? What will happen to us? Besides, according to the rules of the mountain people, the son is the heir, and the son raised by the son is the heir. Father's son is Liu Mu Nan, Liu Mu Nan can't let Xiao Ku Nu conceive a child, and the Liu family will be cut off in this generation. If you want to find a way to let Xiao Kunu have a child, even if Liu Mu Nan has a child, even if her father has a grandson, the Liu family in Beishan will have descendants. Otherwise, Dad can't let go of it over there. ”

What kind of husband thinks that Liu Caogu thinks very strangely: "Isn't Liu Mu Nan also my father's adopted son?" He was picked up by his father on the road, and he can't be regarded as the bloodline of the Liu family. Liu Caogu said unhappily: "What you said is not right, saying that it is bloodline is bloodline, how can you be so clear, you just plant a crop and keep a seed, and there are miscellaneous times." Dad treats Mu Nan as a parent, even if it is a parent, what's wrong? You are not allowed to say this again. ”

Aunt Liu Cao talked to him in the middle of the night, and the husband finally figured out one thing, Aunt Liu Cao was thinking of a way to push him to Xiao Kunu's side, and she was a little angry at first. But after thinking about it, Cao Gu was thinking about the Liu family, and she couldn't simply say whether it was right or wrong, let alone blame her for thinking crankily, she was also in a hurry and couldn't think of any way.

When Daddy Liu was alive, he often chanted: "There are roots and roots, and if there are roots, the Liu family will have roots." "Yougen is the nickname given by his father-in-law to Liu Mu Nan, who felt a little guilty when he thought of this, so he simply closed his eyes, he didn't want to think about anything more, and fell asleep on his back in a daze.

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